That's the thing. 160GB is fine.. but if your collection on iTunes is bigger than that, then you have to tick the albums you want to sync, and it's a pain in the arse. Like you say, most are happy with a really small capacity. I know someone and she just does songs and I'm like ALBUMS FFS. But if she likes 1 song by the Kooks (Naive) she'll have it on there, I'm like yeah it's an okay song but they're a terrible band, and she was like I don't care long as I like the song. It really pisses me off.

That's why I like most people on here, a lot of people on here have a bigger collection than me but amongst the people I know, I'm like a music connoisseur.

Yeah, same. I come on MB to be humbled. Otherwise I would feel like I am THE walking music dictionary 24/7. Coming here all the time reminds me I still have a long way to go.

This. All day long.
I still have a 20 dollar pre-paid that doesn't even have the capability to play music. It can be used to call someone and text them, and I barely even do that.

Not the iPod, but the iPod touch and its apps.

Yup same. I was considered some walking music dictionary when I only knew the beatles and Pink Floyd.
I was shocked with the amount of music I was oblivious of, the day I joined MB.

**** you, ipod touches rule!!! its my baby.

Yeah, I'm using the iPod touch right now.

Ipods save me from 8 hours of boredom every day.
They won't be on this list anytime soon.

I have an 8 gig nano and I actually enjoy selecting what music I'm going to put on it from day to day. Having my entire music collection of there seems like it would be kind of unwieldy to me, especially when I have it plugged in in the car.

I can see that. I usually pick something new every few days for car listening. But I still love the options. In fact, I get pissed off when I'm looking for something on a 30 GB iPod and remember that it was something I jettisoned so I could put something new on. I've got 2 30GB iPods in play now (both pretty old) and when I got an iPhone I went with the 32 GB so I could fill it up with music and have most of what I want among the 3.

On Bourbon: what do you like? I really want some good bourbon. I like most whiskeys but I always go back to Jameson (and I do mean always)

On beer: its fascinating to look at the wildly varying alcohol laws in different states in the US. For instance, in Colorado grocery stores and gas stations could sell beer (ONLY beer) but only with 3.2 alcohol content max. All other alcohol was only available at liquor stores which had to be closed on Sundays. So on Sundays, drunks would fill their bloated guts with full calorie / low alcohol beers.

While we're on the subject of pointless technology.

Now you can carry over 200 books in the palm of your hand.
Well that's great but why would you want to have 200 books in your hand. Unless you are an academic what possible scenario would lead you to need and entire library in your hand at short notice? And even if you were an academic surely you would have access to a real library with a far bigger selection than 200 books.

I can understand this being used by an extremely niche market but other than that what's the point.
Music I can understand having a huge amount on a portable device, after all songs tend to be measured in minutes, a book can last a few days. I just don't ever see the situation where I'm away from home for a couple of hours and I suddenly get the urge out of nowhere to suddenly read a novel.
It just doesn't happen.

I've seen them advertised to people who go on holiday.
Now even if you are an avid reader surely you wouldn't need more than 3 or 4 books for a two week holiday. and if you run out there are plenty of places to buy more of them.
And would you really want to spend a few hundred quid on buying one of these & filling it with books and then taking it onto the beach?
You spill a drink on a book it dries out, try spilling a drink on one of these.
You accidently drop a huge ornamental donkey you've bought from your holiday in spain on a book after a drunken night out , nothing happens. Drop it on one of these.....

You see where i'm going with this.
An utterly utterly pointless device.